BY TOM LUDWICK
Adieu Arnage: A special edition to celebrate the end of an era for the company’s four-door flagship.
Bentley is readying a Final Series model of its Arnage flagship that it will show at the 2008 Paris auto show. In addition to being a final sendoff for the old-school sedan —due for cancellation after the [...]
BY JENS MEINERS
This 500-hp monster is the strongest commitment to the diesel engine yet.
Some folks are writing off the diesel. The future, they say, lies in electric vehicles, with hybrids as the transition technology. Diesel fuel is expensive, they continue, and there is the further popular conception that diesels are not “clean.” In reality, a [...]
BY JUERGEN ZOELLTER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE DUSHANE, MATTHIAS KNOEDLER, AND THE MANUFACTURER
The world’s fastest convertible: Only 150 will be made, at $2.2 million apiece.
Despite the current economic nose dive, the hugely expensive Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is selling faster than expected. To date, 230 of the expected 300 Veyrons have been sold, for 1.1 million euros [...]
BY ERIK JOHNSON
Redesigned for 2007, the second-generation Infiniti G35 sedan was good. Really good. Good enough to get all up in the faces of the competition and fall only to the benchmark BMW 3-series in its last comparison test. Good enough to have been invited to join us for a 40,000-mile fling. Good enough, in [...]
BY STEVE SILER
Nice, but could there be a worse time to launch a Hummer pickup?
That’s right. In spite of skyrocketing oil prices having an inversely proportional effect on Hummer sales in the United States, the brand’s global sales are at an all-time high. This can be attributable to Hummer’s newfound market penetration and accompanying sales [...]
BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD PRINCE
A car nobody needs hits a track nobody knows for a ride nobody will forget.
Just past the curve in which Bruce McLaren bought it, and right before the corner where Niki Lauda had his face burned off, we realize the truth: General Motors must still be mad about our [...]
BY STEVE SILER
Honda touches up its bestseller with revised styling and a couple of new trim levels.
Honda knows how to time things. Just as fuel costs have prompted Americans to say “Whoa, Mamma Joe!” on their personal appetites for fuel (i.e. they are downsizing their rides), Honda is ready to receive them with its fuel-sipping [...]
BY STEVE SILER
Maserati takes us to Mozart’s hometown to play a 4.7-liter symphony.
For most of the last 45 years, Maserati has been a presence, but hardly a dominant force in the market. In sports cars, for example, Ferrari and Porsche have overshadowed Maserati’s best. In terms of luxury sedans, which Maserati has built off and [...]
BY JAKE HOLMES
AMG’s latest release promises 661 horsepower and a top speed of nearly 200 mph.
Mercedes has finally divulged the official details on the SL65 AMG Black Series, and it’s even more impressive than our spy reports indicated.
BY STEVE SILER
Chevrolet Traverse becomes the fourth and perhaps best card in GM’s game-winning hand in the crossover game.
Saving the best for last may not have been GM’s intention when it finally introduced the fourth and final version of its acclaimed Lambda full-size crossovers, which also include the Buick Enclave, Saturn Outlook, and GMC Acadia, [...]
